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For everyone flabbergasted by Southwest running ~Windows 3.1~ old software, I have bad news about the telecom industry. I worked at Ericsson at an R&D branch a
by knappe 2y ago
For everyone flabbergasted by Southwest running ~Windows 3.1~ old software, I have bad news about the telecom industry. I worked at Ericsson at an R&D branch and one of the projects in the works was to move one of the main pieces of routing equipment that handled millions of telephony operatorations a day away from an ancient version of Windows.
A lot of code lives on much longer than you think. The general attitude we took was that most of the code we were writing would be running for at least 30 years. And that was the attitude at an R&D branch, arguably a side of that industry where we were working on the new tech.
Edit: Win 3.1 or something else, the point still stands. There is a lot of old software running out there that will continue to run our core services. Legacy software doesn't just mean v1 versus v2, it can mean v1 versus v41.
- llm_nerd 2y ago>For everyone flabbergasted by Southwest running Windows 3.1 Southwest isn't running Windows 3.1, though. That's some rather lame, but predictable, truth-through-repeated-assertion thing on social media. Not everyone uses CrowdStrike, and in this case SW was the lucky one that didn't.
- wrboyce 2y agoI find this more surprising, even if the Southwest & Win3.1 claims were true, I would expect most Ericsson systems to be Erlang based and thus happily chugging along on a (perhaps ancient) Linux box.
- knappe 2y agoI did too. But I knew of only 1 project that was using Erlang. I have always wanted to use it. Instead I saw a lot of MML and (happily) TCL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MML_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MML_(programming_language)
- ketchupdebugger 2y agoGood thing a lot of our banking still runs on mainframes, will never be taken out by crowdstrike
- fckgw 2y agoSouthwest does not use Windows 3.1. Why does not one read the article? Southwest wasn't affected because they don't use Crowdstrike. That's it.
- knappe 2y agoI did read the article. It links to https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/southwest-airlines-avoided-crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-because-its-still-running-windows-31-fourth-largest-us-airline-remained-free-of-bsod-errors-because-its-os-hasnt-been-updated-in-decades https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/southwest-airlines-av... perhaps you might want to read it again? Notably, crowdstrike won't run on 3.1, and thus you're kinda right.
- philipwhiuk 2y agoYes and that article is wrong.
- knappe 2y agoWin 3.1 or not, the point still stands. There is a lot of software out there that has been running for a really long time and will continue to do so. Relatedly, it is nice to provide a source for your claims. I did see this [0] which would have been an appropriate thing to link [0] https://kotaku.com/southwest-airlines-windows-3-1-blue-screen-crowdstrike-1851603013 https://kotaku.com/southwest-airlines-windows-3-1-blue-scree...
- otterley 2y agoDude, take the L. But for that false story being recited, you wouldn't have made that point in the first place. > For everyone flabbergasted by Southwest running ~Windows 3.1~ old software You said it; own it. You could have said "For everyone who was tricked by the joke that Southwest runs ~Windows 3.1~ old software" but didn't.
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